Weekly Photo Challenge – Future Tense

My sister suggested we get our futures foretold at the Kau Cim stall in the Asakusa shrine in Tokyo.

I really thought we shouldn’t, because I didn’t believe in the stuff and felt it would play on her mind if it was bad, but she insisted. So we went through the drill and picked our slips of paper from the corresponding drawer.

My slip read “Daikichi” (great good luck), hers was evident from her dejected expression. I resisted the urge to say “I told you so” 🙂

Following are images of a young lady checking her future prospects at the Itsukushima shrine, Hiroshima.

A prayer and a wish

Shaking of numbered sticks in metal containers, from which one pops out of the tiny opening

Retreiving the corresponding answer to her querry from one of 100 possible drawers!

So what does the future hold??

This is how mine went……

Did I read “It is good to start a trip”? Have my fingers and all else crossed 🙂

But I like to hear these predictions anyway, but whether they are extreme positive or negative ditto – so I don’t organize my life for them – if we did so the negative signs would become self-reinforcing and the positive would be great disappointments… 🙂

Its very interesting, the human mind, plays tricks of all kinds
i have never believed in these stuffs but inquisitiveness always gets the better of me…
And a secret what i do when i don’t get a good reading is i try best out of three or five or seven till i get a good reading lol
you had a good reading Madhu
may god bless you with more 🙂

I’m pretty sure that in our visit to one shrine or another, my Japanese friend explained that if you don’t like the fortune you pulled, you just tie it on a tree and try for another. Which explains the many bare trees we saw around the shrine that were “blooming” with knotted paper slips!

I love fortunes! I just expect them to be great…and when I receive one that isn’t, I know that there must have been some mistake, a mix-up of some sort! And I’m not at all surprised by your fortune, because you obviously create it everyday and we then see the evidence in each one of your posts Madhu! Fun post!

I am with you about fortune telling. Although, there was a time in my life, especially when I was young and so eager to know whether I would meet my prince or not – that I was more than thrilled to offer my palm to anyone who claimed knowledge about palm reading. But please – limit the reading to romantic fortunes only. I did not want to know how my life would turn out. That was a little too scary. 🙂

Fun! I don’t think one can have too many trips, especially if it is for enjoyment. Great post.
My friend and I went to a fortune teller when we were really young. It was at a local festival, so I don’t know the background of the fortune teller. But my friend was told she would travel the world and have a very exciting life. In reality, she became a travel agent, but I don’t think she has traveled much at all out of the country. My fortune was that I probably wouldn’t leave where I grew up, wouldn’t get married and would have a very ordinary life. Well, I have traveled to many different countries and I love experiencing and learning about different cultures. I’m married to a wonderful man who loves to get out and explore, and we have made many good memories.

I can’t activate the ‘like’, so you’ll have to put up with another comment! Some believe so implicitly It takes my breath away. I love all that red making what otherwise looks like a government office into an auspicious place. 🙂